5/28
Fri & Sat
21:30-23:30

Since the turn of the millennium, the burgeoning new soul movement had reached a critical point of commercial breakthrough.

If you plot the route of modern R&B's foray on a map, you'll notice a huge fork in the road around 2000. It's more like a giant roundabout, leading to more and more divided space production.

From the 90s to the millennium, Neo Soul, as an alternative voice, spent peaceful brief years with some breakout artists. Between 1995 and 1998, the harbingers of soul music's revival in urban culture appeared, when sound wave was locked in a seesaw struggle. Throughout the evolution, some behaviors will still stick to basic principles, but at the mainstream level, R&B has moved further and further away from the foundations of soul music. In 1999, the arrival of the Pop&B era was announced, and a rebellion of post-millennial soul music was unveiled.